On March 15, just days after the assassination of Indigenous leader Berta Cáceres, news surfaced that one of her comrades, Nelson García from the Río Chiquito community, had also been executed. Berta and Nelson both belonged to the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH )....

Berta Cáceres, one of the leading Indigenous activists in Honduras who spent her life fighting in defense of Indigenous rights, was gunned down and murdered on March 2 in her hometown of La Esperanza, Intibuca, Honduras. The following is a message from the International Action Center in the U.S. in response to this murder....

At approximately 11:45 p.m. last night (March 2), the general coordinator of COPINH [Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares e Indígenas de Honduras], Berta Cáceres, was assassinated in her hometown of La Esperanza, Intibuca. At least two individuals broke down the door of the house where Berta was staying for the evening in the Residencial La Líbano, shot and killed her. COPINH is urgently responding to this tragic situation....

How do we put in perspective the international media focus on the massacre of 12 journalists in Paris on Jan. 7 at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, notorious for its racist anti-Muslim caricatures and lack of response to the routine, daily, racist police murders of Black youth in the U.S.? Why were any protests banned in France of 15 journalists who were killed among the 2,000 deaths in the Israeli assault of Gaza this past summer? Don’t those lives matter?...

Human rights activists marched from the New York Times offices to the Empire State Building — which houses Human Rights Watch — to protest both institutions as tools of the CIA, specifically in their role attacking the Bolivarian government of Venezuela....

What historical significance does May have for the people of Honduras? Is it
transcendent just because of the festivities on International Workers’
Day, during which workers around the world lift their collective fists to greet
their class brothers and sisters with the voices of proletarian
internationalism?...

Last month, a delegation from the International Action Center traveled to Honduras to assist with monitoring the presidential election there. Widespread fraud was expected and did indeed happen. The IAC delegation is unanimous in declaring the election as fraudulent. While in Honduras, the delegation also had the opportunity to meet with many Hondurans who have suffered under the brutal U.S. government-supported Honduran regime. One such meeting was in Comayagua, Honduras’ original capital, with the families of men murdered in a horrific prison fire. ...

The Honduran people remain in a state of organized “tense calm” a day after the country’s Supreme Electoral Council (TSE) declared ruling National Party leader Juan Orlando Hernández the winner in the polls, supposedly defeating Libertad y Refundación (Libre) party candidate Xiomara Castro de Zelaya. Hondurans had turned out in record numbers to vote for Castro de Zelaya, and Libre has denounced the TSE for committing fraud in the elections, and is organizing its base, made up of all sectors of Honduran working-class society....

This week a delegation will travel to Honduras to show our solidarity with
the resistance there during the country’s national elections. This will
be the third time the International Action Center has sent a delegation to
Honduras. The first was in October 2009, when democratically elected President
Mel Zelaya was overthrown in a U.S.-supported coup. We were able to witness
with our own eyes a burgeoning and exciting resistance movement incorporating
all sectors of Honduras’s working class....

A presidential election is taking place in Honduras today
that polls indicate will reverse the 2009 coup. Progressive and human rights
organizations have reported on the military’s last-minute attempts to
intimidate international observers who have come to ensure a fair and free
election process....

A U.S.-sponsored military coup in Honduras on June 29, 2009, ousted elected
President Manuel “Mel” Zelaya. Since that time, his spouse, Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, has become a leading figure in the movement to restore his presidency as well as a leader in the burgeoning resistance movement for the rights of all throughout the country...

The IAC along with HondurasUSAResistencia and other national solidarity
organizations, including the Honduras Solidarity Network are organizing a
delegation to Honduras in solidarity with the resistance movement. We will be
eye-witnesses for the historic presidential election that is scheduled to take
place on Sunday, Nov. 24, 2013. The Presidential candidate is Xiomara Castro
Zelaya, a leader of the resistance, and a union and also a resistance leader
for Vice President, Juan Barahona.
...

The International Action Center along with Honduras USA Resistencia and other national solidarity organizations, including the Honduras Solidarity Network, are organizing a delegation to Honduras in solidarity with the resistance movement. The delegation will be eyewitnesses for the historic presidential election that is scheduled to take place on Nov. 24. The presidential candidate is Xiomara Castro Zelaya, a leader of the resistance, and the vice-presidential candidate is Juan Barahona, a union and also a resistance leader....

Honduras USA Resistencia and the Honduras Solidarity Network have issued a
call for Nationally Coordinated Days of Actions for Honduras on June 28. These
actions will commemorate the 2009 coup in that country and express solidarity
with the resistance movement in Honduras. The International Action Center and
other organizations have endorsed....

Pepe
is traveling throughout the US as part of a national tour organized by the
Honduras Solidarity Network. Please come to learn about the brutal repression
being carried out against the LGBT community in Honduras. But also learn about
the heroic resistance of the Honduran people who are organizing against the
illegal coup of 2009 and for a new society. Since 2009, over 80 mainly
transgender women and gay men have been killed in
Honduras....

A New York City march on June 28 to celebrate the third year of resistance to the U.S.-sponsored coup in Honduras turned into a protest of the recent parliamentary coup in Paraguay as well. The International Action Center’s Committee in Solidarity with the Caribbean and Latin America, joined by activists from Honduras, Puerto Rico, Argentina and Ecuador, rallied near Times Square and then marched to the United Nations, stopping and chanting at the Honduran and Paraguayan consulates on the way....

A delegation of human rights activists from the U.S., organized by Rights Action and the Alliance for Global Justice, recently visited the site of the May 11 massacre of indigenous Moskito people in Honduras....

A fire that began late in the evening on Feb. 14 burned 382 prisoners to death at the Comayagua Prison Farm in Honduras. Some clutched the bars of their cells while others drowned in the water tanks in an attempt to escape the flames. According to Berta Oliva of the prisoner relative organization Cofadeh (Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared in Honduras), some were shot to death before they burned. ...

When the New York Times publishes an op-ed piece stating that Honduras is
“descending deeper into a human rights and security abyss” and adds
that this is “in good part the State Department’s making,”
something is changing. (Jan. 26)...

Preliminary recommendations from the September Observer Team’s findings are 1. International Human Rights Organizations increase their attention on Honduras as the electoral process is pursued by the FARP and the land struggle continues in the Aguan Basin of Honduras. 2. That US congress and State Department take concrete and public action to condemn human right violations in Honduras and withhold military/police aid from Honduras while Honduran military and police agents continue to be complicit in forced disappearances, illegal raids, illegal detentions and human rights violations across the country....

Tegucigalpa, Honduras- Nine U.S human rights observers returned to the
United States this week after an intensive twelve-day investigation of the
country’s worsening human rights crisis. Team members had been closely
following events in Honduras since the June 28, 2009 coup d’etat that
ousted democratically elected President Mel Zelaya at gunpoint. “In the
last two years since the coup, despite the supposed election of current
President Pepe Lobo, there has been as many as 200 political assassinations of
members and leaders of the growing popular resistance front known as the FNRP-
Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular. “ says Tanya Cole-director of the
human rights group Witness for Peace Southwest. ...

Manuel Zelaya is going home. After nearly two years in forced exile, after
two years of protests and marches, after strikes in the streets of Honduras,
after the martyrdom of hundreds of members of a huge nationwide resistance,
Hondurans have won the right to bring back “Mel,” their
“Máximo Líder,” the elected General Coordinator of the
Front for the National Popular Resistance of Honduras (FNRP)....

The Latin America-Caribbean Solidarity Committee of the
International Action Center & HondurasUSAResistencia urges everyone to read
the following statement in solidarity with the people of Honduras. A wave of
repression is sweeping the country and the movement in the US must say no. We
urge everyone to organize an contingent in solidarity with Latin America &
the Caribbean and the historic April 9 anti-war actions in NYC and San
Francisco. Si se puede!...

The delegation includes a member of Honduras USA Resistencia who
will be a delegate to the historic first Grand National Assembly of the Frente
National de Resistencia Popular (FNRP) Assembly and two international observers. The Assembly will be held on February 26, 2011 in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa....

Today marks the one year anniversary of the assassination of Walter Trochez, a human rights, LGBTQ and democracy activist in Honduras. His death, like those of many other activists, LGBTQ leaders, journalists, unionists and teachers has been nominally investigated by a police force that itself has been implicated in violence against civilians since the coup on June 28, 2009. Despite the efforts of the U.S. State Department, multinational corporations, the Government of Honduras and their lobbyists to portray the current situation as sporadic violence, attributable to generic 'crime' within a post-election return to normalcy, it is clear that targeted bloodshed and a culture of impunity has taken hold....

Imperialist diplomacy is constructed on lies and secrets. No one is
surprised by the secrets. Few are surprised by the lies. Still, a sudden
exposure of the lies and secrets can arouse a strong political reaction....

Latin American solidarity and anti-imperialist activists around the world, as well as the people of Latin America did not need WikiLeaks’ “leaked” documents to tell them what they already knew: the U.S. government was well aware that the June 28, 2009 ouster of democratically and legitimately elected President Jose Manuel Zelaya of Honduras was illegal and unconstitutional....

From Dec. 3 to 5 in Tijuana, Mexico — just minutes from the San Diego,
Calif., airport — a cross-section of workers from Latin America who are
confronting the global crisis will meet with U.S. workers grappling with
devastating challenges. Building on six previous conferences, the
meeting’s aim is to grow the unity of the working class in the Americas
and increase its influence — from the tip of Chile to Alaska — by
sharing problems but also examining strategies to fight and win....

Nectalí Rodezno, Attorney and Coordinator
of the National Lawyers Front
Against the Military Coup in Honduras, Is leading an extensive tour in the United States during the
month November,exposing the truth of what really happened in Honduras, during
the military coup in June 28th, 2009....

Cuban leaders of the Confederation of Cuban Worker s (CTC) will visit Tijuana,
Mexico, a border city 15 minutes south of downtown San Diego and the
San Diego Airport - U.S./Mexico border. This conference will give people
from North America (the United States, Canada and Mexico) the opportunity to
hear first hand from the Latinoamerican and Caribbean workers. Also, you will
hear from Union leaders of Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Haiti,
Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, Brazil, El Salvador, Puerto Rico and the
U.S. discussing the social and labor movements in the Americas.

and coordinators of Encuentro Sindical Nuestra America have also been
invited. ESNA is a new development that involves the largest and most militant
labor federations throughout Latin America....

The U.S. corporate press was silent when thousands of Hondurans poured into
the streets of Tegucigalpa on Sept. 7 to join the 12-hour national strike
called by the National Front of Popular Resistance (FNRP). It affected all 18
provinces and paralyzed the streets of 11 Honduran cities. Traffic was stopped
on roads and bridges. ...

August was a month of fierce struggle in Honduras. The National Popular
Resistance Front (FNRP) has engaged in strikes, marches and sit-ins, while the
government of Honduras has responded with ruthless repression. Speaking Sept. 6
on the resistance station Radio Globo, Juan Barahona, assistant coordinator of
FNRP and president of the United Workers Federation, said he had never seen
such brutality by the military and police in Honduras, not even in the
1980s....

The International Action Center has announced the formation of the Latin America-Caribbean Solidarity Committee. The committee has already begun planning a number of events in solidarity with the National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP) of Honduras....

June 28th, 2010, marks the first year of the Military Coup in Honduras; the worst political, social and economic disaster in Honduran history. In the morning of that fatal day, more than 200 military men irrupted in the residence of Constitutional President, José Manuel Zelaya Rosales, beat him, tied him down and in his pajamas, put him on a plane and dropped him in the Airport in Costa Rica. Today, President Zelaya and his family are exiled and wish to soon go back to Honduras. ...

We make a call to the international community regarding the militarization
and potential massacre in the valley of Aguán, Northern Honduras. Reports
estimate that of over 5000 police and military from all over the country have
arrived in the valley of Aguán. There are over 3,500 families with women,
children and elderly people who since last year have reclaimed land that was
stolen or forcefully removed by the businessmen Miguel Facusse, René
Morales and Reynaldo Canales....

Eight Honduran lawyers testified in Washington, D.C., at the Inter-American
Court of Human Rights of the Organization of American States. The eight hope
that the IACHR will expose and condemn the escalating human rights abuses
perpetrated in that country after the June 28 coup that removed democratically
elected President Manuel Zelaya Rosales from office. Above all, the lawyers
hope the IACHR will force the Honduran state to investigate and punish these
crimes....

The International Action Center will be traveling to DC this weekend with
activists from Bailout the People Movement, BAYAN, FIST-Fight Imperialism Stand
Together, Peoples Organization for Progress, May 1 Coalition for Workers and
Immigrant rights, Women’s Fight Back Network, Free Mumia Coalition and
many others in cars, vans and buses.

Since the 1980s, militarists in Honduras
have trained paramilitary forces to torture and murder labor unionists and
other activists to prevent the people from exercising their basic right to
resist exploitation and oppression....

The nations of Latin America and the Caribbean were built with the hands of thousands of black and indigenous people. The colonizers oppressed them with the use of the whip and the dollar. The misfortune of the Haitian people is not a product of their geography but a product of a history of occupation, that which determines who lives and who dies, whose life is worth more than others. ...

The United States's goal to control the region for the benefit of its
corporations has no boundaries, whether posing as an aiding partner as in
Haiti, or through the imposition of an illegitimate government as in Honduras;
through 'diplomacy' or through blatant military force....

The following lesbian/gay/bi and trans activists as well as progressives in the United States working in solidarity with the Honduran people and against the U.S.-backed
illegal military coup strongly condemn the assassination of Walter
Tróchez, a 25-year-old member of the lesbian/gay/bi/trans community in Honduras and an active participant in the National Resistance Front....

Unfortunately, the military coup in Honduras and the United States’
announcement to recognize the elections, without reversing the military coup is
another coup to all of Latin America and undoubtedly a regression in relations.
The other day, while waiting at a traffic light, I told another driver who was
wearing a hat with the image of Obama, “Obama has let us down in my
country Honduras, they are about to recognize some elections under a state of
terror”. The traffic light changed and each of us accelerated and quickly
lost sight of each other....

When I first met with Secretary of State
Clinton on July 8 after the coup d'etat, the position of the Obama
administration was made clear to me and to the world regarding its
condemnation of the coup d'etat, non-recognition of the coup regime
authorities and urging the return to the rule of law with the reinstatement of
the President elected by the people....

Shannon’s actions prove him unfit to serve as US
ambassador to Brazil. How can Shannon effectively serve as US ambassador when
Brazil has been among the strongest voices demanding that the Age of Coups in
the Americas is over and that the Honduran coup cannot be allowed to
stand?...

Nov. 2—After 125 days on the streets protesting the military coup that
had deposed their elected president, the people of Honduras have finally seen a
positive sign that could lead to the reinstatement of President José
Manuel Zelaya Rosales....

The International Action Center congratulates the people of Honduras and their vanguard, the National Popular Front of Resistance against the Coup for the signing of the Tegucigalpa-San José accord last Friday, October 30....

After a week of showing solidarity with the people of Honduras on the
streets and gaining insightful information on what has transpired during the
105 days since a right-wing coup, the 12 people composing the U.S. Delegation
in Solidarity with the Honduran Resistance returned to the U.S. in the wee
hours of Oct. 12....

On Monday, October 12, [2009] a 12-member U.S. delegation
returned from Honduras after a four-day visit to the country. Delegates
conducted a fact-finding investigation that included dozens of interviews, as
well as participation in street actions, in order to witness firsthand the
repression carried out by the fraudulent and illegal Micheletti
government....

A press conference featuring representatives of the U.S. Delegation to Honduras, who will announce their intention to travel to Honduras from Oct. 7-11 on a fact-finding mission. The delegation calls on elected officials, the Obama administration and the State Department to assure our safety....

t this moment the Embassy of Brazil in Tegucigalpa where President Manuel Zelaya has been staying since he returned to his country on September 21, together with his family and close to 100 supporters, is being blockaded and attacked with chemical and electronic noise-producing weapons by the Honduran military. Poisonous chemicals and gases are being thrown from helicopters. The entrance is guarded by heavily armed troops who do not allow the delivery of food or other necessities. Water and electricity have been cut off several times in an effort to starve and hurt those inside....

resident Manuel Zelaya, who was
deposed on June 28 by a right-wing pro-U.S. coup, has returned home to
his beloved country. Reports indicate that he is secure at the
Brazilian embassy. His return is a victory for the people of Honduras
and is a direct result of their non-stop and daily struggle for over 80
days....

President Manuel Zelaya, who was deposed on June 28 by a
right-wing pro-U.S. coup, has returned home to his beloved country. Reports
indicate that he is secure at the Brazilian embassy. His return is a victory
for the people of Honduras and is a direct result of their non-stop and daily
struggle for over 80 days....

The International Action Center is excited to announce that it is organizing
a delegation to this important conference in Honduras. This conference will be
a striking blow against the illegitimate government of Roberto Micheletti as it
will show worldwide solidarity with the people of Honduras who continue to
demand the return of President Manuel Zelaya and a peoples Constitutional
Assembly despite wide repression....

As the crisis for the Honduran oligarchy and U.S. imperialism deepens, momentum gathers for the August 28th Days of Action against the coup. August 28th will be the two month anniversary of the coup d’état where President Manual Zelaya was ousted....

Hondurans continue the struggle in the streets. Defying criminal police and
military who repress, arrest and shoot tear and pepper gas, rubber bullets and
live ammunition at them, the people have protested the military coup regime
every day for seven long weeks....

We demand:
Stop the killings & repression of the Honduran people;No to human rights violations in Honduras;
Support the non-violent resistance of the Honduran People and the National Front for Resistance Against the Coup d’état;
Immediate return of Constitutional law and restore Constitutional President José Manuel Zelaya Rosales;
No to an electoral process as product of the de facto regime;
No to the militarization of Honduras, or U.S. military bases in Honduras...

Honduran workers and farmers have protested every day since a military coup
d’état overthrew that country’s democratically elected
President Manuel Zelaya on June 28. Voices of that resistance movement spoke in
Philadelphia July 31 stressing the urgency that Zelaya be returned to power and
the coup d’état overturned....

The International Action Center is calling on the anti-war and progressive movement to participate in National Days of Solidarity with the people resisting the coup d'etat in Honduras on the two month anniversary of
the coup ...

It has been amazing to see the popular surge, coalescence and coordination
during the first 23 days since the coup. Unions, youth and students, women,
peasants, Indigenous, Afro descendants—all have joined in the Popular
National Front of Resistance against the Coup D’État (FNPRG)....

I demand that the Barack Obama administration and the U.S.
Congress unequivocally condemn the unconstitutional and anti-democratic
military coup in Honduras and insist that the military regime and the newly
appointed but illegitimate president of Honduras restore President Zelaya to
office, free all the imprisoned popular leaders and remove the curfew. I
further demand that the U.S. Ambassador to Honduras be recalled immediately
until such time as President Zelaya is restored to office....

Come out to hear the latest developments in Honduras following the
right-wing coup against President Manuel Zelaya on June 28th and demonstrate
your solidarity with the Honduran people, as they continue to demand their
president back....

On June 28, the Honduran army used weapons and force to take Honduras’
constitutional President Manuel Zelaya from his residence and send him to Costa
Rica in what was the first military coup d'état in Central America in
more than 30 years. This act of extreme violence can only bring more war and
destabilization to the region....

June 30—Some 200 heavily armed soldiers from the Honduran army surrounded
the house of democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya at dawn on June 28.
After firing on the house, soldiers forced their way in, pointed their rifles
at Zelaya’s head and chest, and forced him into a vehicle. They drove him
to an airplane that flew him to Costa Rica....

Manuel Zelaya is backed by a majority of labor unions and social movements in
Honduras. This coup was carried out in a way that mirrors the removal of
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from Haiti and the attempted coup against
President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, who was brought back to power by the
Venezuelan people....

I demand that the Barack Obama administration and the U.S. Congress unequivocally condemn the unconstitutional and anti-democratic military coup in Honduras and insist that the military regime and the newly appointed but illegitimate president of Honduras restore President Zelaya to office, free all the imprisoned popular leaders and remove the curfew. I further demand that the U.S. Ambassador to Honduras be recalled immediately until such time as President Zelaya is restored to office....

Dan Restrepo, Presidential Advisor to President Obama for
Latin American Affairs, is currently on CNN en Español. He has just stated
that Obama's government is communicating with the coup forces in Honduras,
trying to "feel out" the situation....